On 9/27/11, Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: > I wish you the best of luck! Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how one looks at it), mine appears to be just bad sectors developing on one of the "newest" drive I added to the machine as part of a mdadm RAID 1 array. After I rebooted the server and after some period of non-activity apart from the raid resync, I came back to see the console scrolling with error messages and an email warning in my inbox that a device has failed. smartctl quick test aborted with a read error but WD's diag reports no problem on a quick test so I'm putting it through the full media scan to be sure. Hopefully it is indeed just bad sectors but I'm skeptical at this point because in the original situation, there was no warning email from mdadm and there was nothing logged when I checked.